N.Wah

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

i havent done much personal work in a long time, but sometimes i do these studies to keep learning. this is a master copy of one of the designers i've been following lately, anthony jones. apparently he does lots of master copies as well, so im sure he'd be cool with me doin one of him...

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

getting my environment mojo back on. i believe its been 2 yrs since i last worked on environments.... i was still in the process of learning then until i got caught up in the product design world... now im tryin to get something done for when we move into our new studio next month. arg... still have a long ways to go...

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

so it's been a long time since i've posted i know... i've been busy working at a small new industrial design firm called Soulcake. been so busy impressing clients and seeing the company grow, there's a lot of work i just havent been able to show. fortunately things have been going well. i've mostly been working in a different style and process for product design, so it's been quite a while since i've practiced my entertainment design technique.

to get back into it, i did a master copy of some guild wars concept art.. they have some more artistic, loose styles when it comes to concept art.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

a while earlier i did some experimenting, trying to teach myself to develop forms thru abstract sketches. still kinda bummed that art center doesnt really have a good product form development class anymore so i try to learn as much as i can on my own. i tried designing a robot head starting abstractly and working it thru iteratively.

no updates in a while since ive been organizing my portfolio. every time i stop doing sketches for more than a week, i feel like im goin to lose my skills... but then i pick up the tablet pen again and everything seems to b ok after all, thank goodness.

just having some fun scribbling and seeing if i can turn scribbles into furniture forms...

Sunday, September 5, 2010

no updates for a while since i've been busy with internship at SKD... heres some sketches i did one day on a slow week when i didnt have any projects... these are medical ventilator masks i did using a rendering style inspired by greg stoermer... they werent done for the project so they should b ok to show...

Thursday, May 13, 2010

venting out my solidworks frustration with this. it kinda reminds me of wen i was in kindergarden, i was coloring with crayons for the first time... and some kid called me out for scribbling. then the teacher told me to stop. and i was like, 'im not scribbling!!'

ppl still tell me to stop scribbling and stop sucking... but i guess now my response would be... 'screw you... im gonna scribble cuz i feel like it. and im gonna make u look at it too.'

Saturday, March 6, 2010

created a form by putting down random lines... rendered it out a bit... trying to get less of a painterly style and more of a rendering style out of this brush.... same brush i used in the previous post....

my goal.. have better understanding of form, be better at style.. trans majors seem to have those things down.. time to step it up...

Monday, March 1, 2010

just spent the evening with a sketching group.. 'Studio L'... earlier they told me to work the color some more... this was the result after i got home and added a couple quick filters... i should also add some more detail but o well... next time... gotta keep practicing....

Saturday, February 20, 2010

abstract form studies... goin back to hand sketches... feels really weird and fun at the same time... i like this technique... brush pen/ballpoint. lately ive been interested in zaha hadid's parametricist forms.... fun fun fun....

Monday, February 8, 2010

i just uploaded some of my work up on coroflot these past couple days. its already been getting some pretty good feedback so far! its about time i put myself out there... ahh i just keep wishing i had more polished work to show off...

i really feel like im part of the new generation of designers now... especially seeing how much my sketch techniques differ from the old school designers... i learned those old school techniques from teachers, too... just that its different now that we're on the same playing field.

as part of the new generation i guess its my responsibility to push for new and better ways to design... wish me luck... and hope i dont starve to death cuz of my idealistic nature~